The problem with doing that is that Apple's Maps only improves if people use it and report problems. If Apple left Google Maps as the default then no one would use Apple's maps and they'd be just as bad when finally released.

As it is, who knows if they'll ever get any better as some people have simply refused to use it as the results are very poor. If Google Maps is approved for the App Store the same thing will happen.

I remember a time when Google Maps results were quite poor as well, but they weren't any worse than any other company's so people continued to use them. Apple is literally 8 years late to the party.

Yes, by itself a carrier doesn't have a lot of defensive capabilities . That's why carriers travel in fleets which include cruisers, destroyers and subs which are designed to defend the carrier in addition to providing additional offensive capability. Carriers never go anywhere without backup.

With AT&T, I discovered that data usage takes about a day to be entered into the system, so the extra data could have come from the prior billing cycle.

In my case, I had about 800 MB of data left on the last day of my billing cycle so I decided to download a 300 MB file. The data usage didn't show up in AT&T's system until the next day, so despite showing the correct usage date on my bill, the data was applied to next months data cap.

Basically, don't trust usage monitors, apps or even your bill to be correct since data isn't applied the way you would think it should be.

Or Firefox or Safari.

Most businesses are starting or have already switched to Windows 7 since support for XP officially ends in 18 months.

Actually for many, you can't. Carriers can disable the 3G toggle on the iPhone 4S. AT&T does so.

http://www.idownloadblog.com/2012/03/09/ios-51-brings-3g-toggle/

It remains to be seen if the iPhone 5 can really pull off 8 hours of LTE browsing as that would be impressive (blow through your data cap on a single charge), but historically Apple's battery estimates are on the high side.

True, but then normal way of getting experience is to have a job. It's the old adage, you can't get experience without a job and you can't get a job without experience. That's where the degree comes in. It gets you in the door long enough to get "real world" experience.

iTunes music is DRM free. He doesn't need to sue to leave it to his daughters.

People who don't understand (or read) patents, really shouldn't comment on patents. You can't just read the title of the patent and says "well duh that's obvious" since the title of a patent doesn't describe the process on how it is done. That's the thing most people don't understand. Ideas aren't patentable, end results aren't patentable, only the process leading to the end result is patentable.

Take your example "sound and light from the device could be disabled when entering a movie theater, or communications with other devices could be disabled in a science laboratory." That sentence in itself is simply the end result of a process and in itself isn't patentable. It's the steps that lead to that result that are patentable. This could be done in a variety of difference ways: The device could listen for "sounds" of a movie, it could use GPS locations, it could check for a specific WiFi SSID, etc. This patent wouldn't cover all those cases, only the one specifically mentioned in the patent.

That's why a patent isn't just one sentence and why it's easy to work around most patents.

That was fixed back in Dropbox 1.2.48 (October 31, 2011)

https://www.dropbox.com/release_notes

If it's an original iPhone, it's probably worthless.

Yes, hence the last line in my post:

"To bypass this block, your iPhone would have to be jailbroken."

It's likely the DRM is driving people to piracy, even those who purchased the game, since the DRM frequently makes the game unplayable.

The block is done the same way the tethering block is implemented. There's a setting in the carrier file which controls whether or not FaceTime is allowed over 3G. The processing of said file is built into the iOS and can be downloaded over the air and time the user connects to the carrier network. AT&T sets the FaceTime flag to no or yes based on user's the chosen plan. Other carriers simply set it to yes.

For example, when I went to China with my iPhone and connected to China Mobile the tethering option suddenly became available (since China Mobile doesn't block tethering). When I got back to the U.S. and connected back to AT&T, the tethering option was disabled again (since I'm on the grandfather unlimited plan).

Processing of the carrier file is built into iOS and it doesn't care if your phone is unlocked or not. Unless AT&T sets the FaceTime flag to true for unlocked iPhones, then you still won't be able to do FaceTime over 3G, unless you switch to a Mobile Share plan (which is a rip off if you ask me).

To bypass this block, your iPhone would have to be jailbroken.